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Windows Mobile/Phone actually was less capable than Android on similar hardware. That Windows Phone had superior resource management was a myth. Even on high-end hardware Windows Phone struggles to handle things that even a lower-end Android device can handle.

I don't know if Windows Mobile was ever faster or smoother, but for certain it was not in the last few years.

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As someone who's spent years using both, I can definitely disagree. Even a budget Windows Mobile was far less sluggish than my high end Motorola flagship phones.

In fact, I had a phone with Microsoft's Android Bridge beta, and while people were complaining how slow the Android apps were on it... I realized that it was more or less just the normal performance Android apps ran at.

> I had a phone with Microsoft's Android Bridge beta, and while people were complaining how slow the Android apps were on it... I realized that it was more or less just the normal performance Android apps ran at.

Seems a little disingenuous to pin performance against a half-implemented ASOP API running on an environment without all of the JVM bytecode tuning Google has put into ART/Dalvik.

I wasn't. I carried Android phones as my primary devices for over six years. I was comparing that experience, to my experiences with the Android Bridge.

This is the ultimate in revision. Windows phone was incredibly laggy on similar hardware to Android.

I assume it was related to the inefficiency of the Windows kernel compared to Linux.

http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w... "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other ...

I don't know if you ever used a decent windows phone. But I can tell you that my Lumia 1020 was way more stable, smoother and user friendly than my Samsung Note 5.

The Lumia devices I have here are the living proof that isn't a myth.

I have never seen an 150 € Android devices that were as fast as they are.

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